Air export, from booking to tendered AWB.
TIO reads the booking and commercial documents, pre-fills the air waybill data, and surfaces tender and screening cutoffs. Your team reviews and approves. Your TMS stays the system of record.
The full air export lifecycle, end to end
Air export gives you the least time of any lane and the least forgiving cutoffs. Tender, screening, and EEI all sit on separate clocks measured in hours, each with a different party waiting on it. Miss one and the freight does not fly, and the customer hears it from the airline before they hear it from you. Here is the whole lane: the window on each stage, the risk that grounds the shipment, and who has to be told.
Booking & space
~1-3 days before flightCapacity not confirmed, ULD type wrong, dangerous-goods acceptance not cleared.
Shipper, airline, origin station.
Where TIO actsReads the booking and airline confirmation, binds them to the job, and pre-fills the air waybill and manifest data for review.
Tender, screening & cutoff
Tight; cutoffs measured in hoursMissed tender cutoff, screening or known-shipper status, DG or embargo block.
Shipper, ground handler, airline.
Where TIO actsReads tender and screening windows from the airline confirmation and surfaces each as the next action, ordered by what is due first.
Export filing (EEI / AES)
Pre-departureLate EEI, license or ECCN issue on controlled commodities.
USPPI, the filer, the airline.
Where TIO actsAssembles shipper, consignee, commodity, pieces, weight, and value from the commercial documents and routes them for the filer to review and submit.
Uplift & MAWB
Around flight departureOffload or split, MAWB errors, partial uplift not communicated.
Airline, destination agent, shipper.
Where TIO actsBinds flight changes, reroutes, and split notices to the job so the tender and documents run on current information.
Destination handoff & docs
Departure to arrivalDocument transfer to the destination agent is late or incomplete.
Destination agent, consignee.
Where TIO actsSurfaces the pre-alert-out action so the destination station gets a complete set before the flight lands.
Charges, invoice & close
Same weekAirline accessorials uncaptured, margin lost on a fast cycle.
Accounting, the customer.
Where TIO actsAggregates airline and agent charge emails into the invoice draft for review.